KALI

Two men were arrested by Mumbai police this week for allegedly sharing offensively photoshopped pictures of the Hindu goddess Kali on Facebook. According to a report in The Indian Express, the two Mus...

Well played, Team Angry Indian Goddesses . HuffPost India had previously written about how the recently-released film, starring an ensemble cast of seven actresses, had faced the wrath of the Central...

Growing up in India, I never met or heard about Indians with African lineages. Then in 2005 I watched a dance performance by the Sidi Goma, a group of musicians from an African Indian community, and I was astonished and mesmerised. Since then I've discovered that India's African roots are much older than the Siddis, and are not only evident in numerous other communities, but percolate through direct descent in the blood of at least 600 million Indians.

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